Chapter 1
Foundational Skills
Course: Elementary Education Assessment 5006
Subject: Reading And Language Arts And Social Studies 5007
Chapter: Language
This lesson focuses on the language conventions that allow students to communicate clearly and effectively in school and beyond. Standard Academic English is the formal, rule-governed form of English used in academic writing, classroom discussions, textbooks, assessments, and professional communication. It includes grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling conventions that make meaning clear to a wide audience.
Praxis 5007 assesses your ability to understand these conventions and apply them in teaching situations. That includes recognizing errors in student work, selecting instruction that addresses the error, and modeling correct usage in speech and writing.
It also includes understanding that students may speak a home language or dialect that differs from academic English, and that instruction must teach academic English without treating a student’s language background as incorrect or inferior.